


Basil 


Memmoth Dill 

LC 
Sweet Marjoram 



Broad Leaf Sage 
HERBS FOR YOUR GARDEN 
Sweet, Pot and Medicinal 
Grow a few Herbs in your garden. You will find them useful in many ways. They do best in a rich, mellow soil. Sow seeds early i i i 
: ! . F , y in the spring, in 
rows | foot apart, and thin out or transplant when up a few inches. For winter storing, cut before they come into full blossom and hang up 
where they can dry. 
Anise. Used for garnishing and flavoring. The 
seeds are used in cakes, bread,soup. Perennial. 
18 inches high. Pkg.:15c 
Basil. Used for flavoring soups and sauces. 
Pkg. 10c; %4 oz. 20c; oz. 60c 
Borage. An annual used for bee-pasture and 
as a pot-herb. Pkqs 15¢7) Vas0z, 2567022 75¢ 

Mushrooms 
Mustard 
Giant Southern Curled. A favorite in the 
South, where it is grown for spring salads. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; Y% Ib. 60c; Ib. $1.75 

Giant Southern Curled Mustard 
Okra or Gumbo 
The pods are used in making soups and 
stews. Cut up, they give them flavor and 
body. Pick the pods when they are small and 
tender. Sow the seed as early in the spring 
as possible in a warm, fairly dry soil. Pods 
should be used when young, about 3 
Coriander. For garnishing. 
Pkg. 10c; %4 oz. 20c 
Dill, Long Island Mammoth. 
used for dill pickles. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; Y% Ib. 65c; Ib. $2.00 
An annual 
Mushroom Spawn 
Any ordinary cellar not heated by a furnace, 
an old shed, under benches in the greenhouse 
——all are ideal places to grow Mushrooms, It 
is easily done and there is no great amount of 
work to it. Why not start a bed this year? 
There is always a good market for mushrooms. 
We send full directions for making the bed and 
sowing Mushrooms with every Mushroom 
order. 
American Pure-Culture Spawn. This spawn 
produces large Mushrooms of splendid quality. 
Brick Spawn. One brick will plant 16 sq. ft. 
of bed surface. 
50c a brick postpaid; by express, 5 bricks 
$1.65; 10 bricks $3.00; 100 bricks $27.50 
BUY A WAR BOND 
HOW TO PREPARE YOUR 
VEGETABLES 
FOR QUICK FREEZING 
Blanch (scald with boiling water) all 
vegetables before packing. This helps pre- 
serve quality, flavor and color. 
_To make the 2% brine for liquid pack, 
dissolve ] teaspoon salt in 1 quart of water. 
Cool before using. Put vegetables in con- 
tainer and cover with brine. Thoroughly 
cool vegetables before packing. 
When dry packing vegetables, drain off 
all excess water before placing in container. 
Be sure to label each container with 
name of contents and date of freezing. 
Keep a record of everything put in and 
taken out of your locker. 
Take containers to locker plant for freez- 
ing immediately after packing. 


For seasoning poultry, 
Sage, Broad Leaf. : 
Perennial. 18 inches 
sausage, stews, sauces. 
high. Pkg. 15c 
Savory, Summer. An annual whose leaves 
and shoots are used for seasoning. 
Pkg. 10c; Y%4 oz. 25c 
Sweet Marjoram. Used for seasoning sau- 
sages and in other dishes, when either fresh or 
Pkg. 15c¢; Y% oz. 45c 
dried. Annual. 
Our Purple Top White Globe Turnips from the 
garden of Fred Marsh, of Flower City Park in 
Rochester. Six of them make an armful for 
daughter Betty. 
Long Pod Dwarf Okra—Splendid for Making Soups 

inches long. 
Long Pod Dwarf. A very good kind 
for the home garden as the plants 
are much more compact growing and 
take up less room. Very heavy bearer 
of 7- to 8-inch, tapered, dark green, 
fleshy, tender pods. Mature in 55 
days. Pkg. 10c; oz. 15c; 
Y4 Ib. 35c; Ib. $1.00 
Clemson Spineless. Big, thrifty 
plant 4 feet tall, bearing prolificly, 
rich green pods, straight and moder- 
ately ridged, and of very good qual- 
ity. Similar to Perkins’ Mammoth but 
spineless. Pkg. 10c; oz. 15¢; 
VY Ib. 35c; Ib. $1.00 
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